Author: Timothy Sandefur Reason's Katherine Mangu-Ward makes some important observations about taxicab licensing in Wasihngton, D.C. … ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur This week, PLF's Economic Liberty Project filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a case coming out of Maryland, where state law forbids corporations from owning funeral homes. Only individuals can own funeral homes–and only individuals who have Maryland state funeral licenses. Why? It's simple: to protect ...
Author: Brandon Middleton The Obama administration has previously had trouble admitting that the Endangered Species act has prevented water from flowing to the Central Valley. The last week has seen this disturbing trend continue. The Interior Department's Sept. 17 "Reality Check" merely states that "the temporary restrictions th ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur Yesterday's New York Times featured an editorial calling on courts to abolish the principle of “corporate personhood.” This is the legal principle that holds that corporations should be treated like “persons” under the Fourteenth Amendment and in other areas of the law. This principle has c ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur The Rockford College Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has posted the video of my interview with philosopher Stephen Hicks. One embarrassing error: in my interview, I mentioned that the poet Yeats referred to the 1930s as a "low, dishonest decade." In fact, that quote is from W.H. Auden's poem "Septe ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur The Show-Me Institute has published my policy report, Gradual And Silent Encroachments: How The Missouri Supreme Court Expanded the Power of Eminent Domain. This article describes the case of dentist Homer Tourkakis, whose property was seized by the city of Arnold, Missouri, to give away to a private developer.& ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur I'll be speaking tomorrow at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, where my friend Stephen Hicks runs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Then on Thursday, I'll be speaking to the Federalist Society at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison. On October 13, I'll be speaking to the Federalist ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur This is very late, I'm sorry to say, but here is a video of remarks by PLF client Adam Sweet and myself at a luncheon that PLF and the Cascade Policy Institute sponsored in honor of Milton Friedman a few months ago. Adam, you'll remember, succeeded in overturning the cartel that Oregon law created ̷ ...
Attention 3Ls! Apply now for a post-grad litigation Fellowship with PLF at our Sacramento headquarters, starting in September, 2010. Applications are due at the end of this month, so don't delay! … ...